There have been calls to form a new conservative party. In light of its hostile takeover by Donald Trump, many consider the Republican Party to be not merely sick but dead. Gene O’Neill marks the time of passing for this once great party at the point where Ted Cruz was booed at the Republican National Convention:

If Republicans now boo freedom, conscience, and the Constitution, conservatives are no longer Republicans. There aren’t as many of us as we used to think. But there still should be enough to start a principled party that will give us a base to expand from, if the populist progressive contagion persists after November.

Another hat tip to Torcer and Moonbattery’s anti-Trump moonbattery of the day! Nice pro-Cruz anti-Trump rhetoric – Hillary will be grateful! Everybody knows who – not what – the people were booing and why. It’s just Lyin’ Ted living up to his moniker – and people who aren’t so stupid not to know it for what it was.. And here I thought only the progressive liberal socialists stooped to this kind of propaganda. Dave Blount’s editorial is just ridiculous.

Grumpy Cat

Keep on singing that song and you’ll wake up in the box car on the way to a FEMA camp. Moron.

I have a feeling he’s doing it for the huge leap in comments per post. That equals increased ad revenue. Why do you think Soros invests millions in destroying Western capitalism, to lose all his money? What will Dave gain by having Hillary in the White House? More comments = more $$$$

Torcer

Cruz control
It has dawned on some in the media that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), far from incinerating his own political career by refusing to endorse Donald Trump, may be one of the few survivors of the 2016 GOP presidential field. Well, we have been making that case — since May. His convention speech, we have argued, kept Cruz free from months of the political hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty that have plagued so many Trump apologists.

We thought he played the aftermath of the primaries — staying low and letting others contort themselves — smartly. He’s continuing on that path:

Cruz, in rare fashion, has let the fire rage without adding his own gasoline. “He’s doing a remarkable job staying quiet and letting people come to that conclusion on their own,” said Amanda Carpenter, a longtime adviser to Cruz.

While those close to Cruz were confident the decision not to endorse would be the right one in the end, the quickness with which it’s panning out has been a bit of a surprise. “Trump blew his own convention. While predictable, it still boggles the mind it happened,” Carpenter said. “Trump is like a tornado. You know it’s going to be devastating when it rips through your house but the aftermath is still shocking.”

Moreover, each time a group of principled, apolitical figures comes forward to bash Trump, Cruz deserves another “I told you so.” He warned, you recall, that Trump was a pathological liar driven by emotional neediness and devoid of the qualities we need in a president. (“This man is a pathological liar. He doesn’t know the difference between truth and lies. He lies practically every word that comes out of his mouth. And in a pattern that I think is straight out of a psychology textbook, his response is to accuse everybody else of lying. He accuses everybody on that debate stage of lying. And it’s simply a mindless yell. Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing. The man cannot tell the truth, but he combines it with being a narcissist. A narcissist at a level I don’t think this country has ever seen.”)

Most fundamentally, Mr. Trump lacks the character, values, and experience to be President. He weakens U.S. moral authority as the leader of the free world . . . . He is unable or unwilling to separate truth from falsehood. He does not encourage conflicting views. He lacks self-control and acts impetuously. He cannot tolerate personal criticism. He has alarmed allies with his erratic behavior.

Nah, we give all the credit to you of course. Where would Dave Blount be without your daily dose of anti-Trump goodness!

Torcer

You will note that instead of addressing the substance of the article I posted she went of the ever droll ad hominem attack on sources.

Torcer

Hahahahahahahaha!
Sorry to laugh at your expense, but it’s getting quite amusing that you seem to have a problem with free-speech like your hero Donald.

How many articles has Dave posted that YOU recommended?
That’s assuming you’ve bloody well posted something useful for once.

Artfuldgr

Reminds me of Konstantin Jireček:

“We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are
doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, for so
long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing.”

and

I find it interesting in a verbal sort of way, the constant use of the term “hostile takeover”. I wonder if those that use it are aware of what the definition implies?

A hostile takeover is the acquisition of one
company by another that is accomplished by going directly to the company’s shareholders or
fighting to replace management to get the acquisition approved.

Torcer

A Black Conservative has a Very Important Question for Donald Trump
Early Tuesday morning, NBC News political editor, Mark Murray tweeted how much the campaigns of Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton, Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, Green Party nominee Jill Stein, and Republican nominee Donald Trump have spent on advertising over the last two months.

A New Conservative Party? There hasn’t been a conservative party, yet.

KirklesWorth

Where did I say I had a “problem” with anything? Quite to the contrary – it helps me prove my points. Please, keep them coming. It actually seems like you are the one that has the hostility…why are you trying to project it on me?

MIAMI HERALD
Republicans have seen a surge in registered voters in Florida since the
start of the year, cutting the Democrats’ overall advantage to the
thinnest in state history and giving Donald Trump’s presidential
campaign more reason to be hopeful. Since January, the number of
registered voters in Florida has jumped by 377,000 with nearly 60
percent of that within the Republican ranks — a sign that Trump is
drawing voters to the party, his campaign argues. Democrats now have a
259,000-vote edge over Republicans — only half of what it was four years
ago

Gene

If Trump had been smart he would taken the speech as an endorsement and adopted it as is own. I was almost to the point where I thought I would vote for Trump, but when I heard these people booing the idea of defending the Constitution I was pushed farther away than ever.

FrozenPatriot

…and he links to WaPo more than any other news outlet when replying to me. I’m starting to think TwinkleToes is a Hitlery operative.

KirklesWorth

Did I say “don’t listen to your sources”? Nope, I just listed them according to their position on Pew’s chart. Do you have a problem with putting their ideology in perspective?

Tchhht!!!

Do ya think maybe he did that to avoid the MSM piling on about disunity?

DW Brandel

Ted Cruz promised to endorse the republican nominee. He did not endorse the republican nominee. Hence Lyin’ Ted. A lie is a lie is a lie.

Torcer

Look at the evidence at hand:
1. It doesn’t really do much in the way criticizing Comrade Clinton.
2. While at the same time it does little in trying to advocate for Trump
3. Finally it’s behaviour is hardly amenable to some supporting it’s candidate.

Torcer

How many articles has Dave posted that YOU recommended?
That’s assuming you’ve posted something useful for once.

Torcer

Where did you get that strawman?

KirklesWorth

Little old me? I’m having a hard enough time following your anti-Trump (but not Hillary enabling) stories to push people towards your Convention of States, secession, or revolution. I can’t be looking up pro-Trump stories and submit them against yours and Dave Blount’s agenda!

Torcer

As someone else asked you before – Why are you here?

KirklesWorth

To keep an eye things. Did you have a problem with me being here?

Torcer

You can do that without incessantly attacking Conservatives…

Perhaps you should try being constructive for once.

FrozenPatriot

I submit that TwinkleToes’s petulance and abrasiveness does more to push folks away from the cult o’ Trump than towards it. If it was revealed that he/she collects a paycheck from team Hitlery, well color me surprised…

Nope. This is and always has been about what the people want. And before anything else, the MESS must be cleaned up. Forget about ideology. The dangerous things and the wrong things which lead to the wrong results have to be dealt with. And especially identity driven socio-political agendas have to be called out for what they are — a political agenda of revenge — and rejected.

Cruz still thinks he is a messiah. That by pure acts of speaking to ideology while he is absolutely siding with the globalist agenda, he will somehow win office. And winning office is the goal of Hillary and Cruz and most every politician. Winning office is not Trump’s goal. Winning office is just the necessary step to being able to fix the problems we live with.

And you have to recognize the truth in this. Political office and political power “as a goal” is the most dangerous and disgusting devolvement in our system today.

Trump is winning and has practically already won. This campaign isn’t against Hillary — she has already lost and she isn’t even campaigning in any real sense. This is all about the establishment versus the people who are tired of it all.

Daniel

This is how you know there is mental illness here. When the rest of the world, including the people who were there actually rejecting Cruz for not endorsing Trump, heard what Cruz implied and what he didn’t say, they all unanimously knew what was wrong. But not these few people. Oh no, they want to believe that it was something else. They want to believe that all of these people rejecting Cruz were actually rejecting the US Constitution.

You’re living in a twisted universe which is apparently separate from the one everyone else is living in. And there is clearly a perception and interpretation problem as well. When beliefs overpower objective reality, you have religious zealotry… you have moonbattery. You have become your own moonbats.

KirklesWorth

This coming from the one who wants an “uprising” and will foment hostilities with republicans and conservatives against the republican candidate to do it. I will speak out against Hillary being president – “petulance and abrasiveness” notwithstanding.

KirklesWorth

Constructive like you? What is the goal of your “constructive” attacks against Trump? What ends justifies your means?

FrozenPatriot

Not an uprising, a cleansing of government worship mentality from the country in general, and progressives in both parties in particular.

KirklesWorth

But of course you have to “assist” this to happen rather than letting it occur “naturally”.

Torcer

KirklesWorth

Constructive like you? What is the goal of your “constructive” attacks against Trump? What ends justifies your means?

Is that your mantra?

Torcer

Yes, that is exactly my contention.

They could spend their time trying to advocate for Trump and attack Comrade Clinton, but instead they incessantly attack those of us who dare mention a discouraging word about Don.

They some have the mistaken idea that the phrase “The beatings will continue until morale improves” as some sort of guide.

There are several around here who engage in the behavior and Don’s dropping poll numbers should show them that their efforts aren’t panning out – IF the point of their activities is to support the man.

KirklesWorth

Sure, makes perfect sense. On an anti-Trump site with anti-Trump articles and anti-Trump commenters, some poor unsuspecting Trump-supporter is going to arrive and I’m going to put them off. Hilarious!

KirklesWorth

No, that’s my question. What is your desired outcome of this election?

Torcer

Are you denying that this site criticizes both candidates?

Torcer

That a candidate who champions liberty wins

KirklesWorth

I don’t see anything about denying that. This site:

1. Criticizes Trump
2. Criticizes Hillary
3. Is ambiguous about the final goal of doing #1 and #2

Do you care to answer point 3?

KirklesWorth

I see. Nice in concept, lacking in the concrete. So if Hillary wins, she is championing liberty?

Torcer

No.

Now that I’ve answered your questions – now it YOUR turn: Do you believe the polls?

Shouldn’t Trump and his followers try something different?

Torcer

KirklesWorth

Sure, makes perfect sense. On an anti-Trump site with anti-Trump articles and anti-Trump commenters, some poor unsuspecting Trump-supporter is going to arrive and I’m going to put them off. Hilarious!

No denial per usual. Maybe you don’t know what “ambiguous” means: am·big·u·ous amˈbiɡyo͞oəs/ adjective (of language) open to more than one interpretation; having a double meaning; unclear or inexact because a choice between alternatives has not been made.

1. Criticizes Trump
2. Criticizes Hillary
3. Is ambiguous about the final goal of doing #1 and #2

So, what is the final goal of doing #1 and #2?

Torcer

Again:

KirklesWorth 3. Is ambiguous about the final goal of doing #1 and #2

What factual proof do you have of this contention?
Be sure to include plenty EXCERPTS and Links from authentic reference sites in your answer.